Czech audio to text

Yes. Our Czech test transcript used ě, š, č, ř, ž, the long vowels and ů throughout, as in “největším”, “přibližně”, “kůra” and “vůbec”, and every piece came back with capitals and punctuation.

Quotation marks are the exception: no „…“ appeared, and brackets were dropped, so “80 km (50 mil)” came back as “80 km 50 mil”. Add them back while you proofread.

Because they sound the same, and the right one depends on grammar the audio can’t show. Past-tense endings follow the subject’s gender, and our test got them wrong in both directions: “mohli” became “mohly”, and “převládaly” became “převládali”.

Read every past-tense verb whose subject is plural; it takes a minute and catches the slips a Czech reader notices first.

A lost “ne”. In one sentence of our test both negatives disappeared: “nenacházely” came back as “necházely” and “nebyly přidány” as “byly přidány”, which says the opposite. Search for verbs in statements that matter.

Because Slovak is close enough that a short Czech piece can be taken for it when the language is guessed, and then spelled the Slovak way. Fixed to Czech, every piece keeps Czech spelling, with ř and ě rather than Slovak forms.

Our tests used standard Czech read aloud. Everyday Common Czech, with forms such as dobrej for dobrý, and strong Moravian accents may come out differently, so try a short clip first. For a recording that changes language for long stretches, use the main audio to text converter.

Do it on your Mac with NoteOwl, which understands Czech among the languages it transcribes there. It transcribes Czech recordings and meetings with unlimited transcription, labels each speaker and keeps every conversation searchable, without uploading the audio; its dictation is free.